Death in Venice Directed by Luchino Visconti, Death in Venice was shown at FEST in 1973. This adaptation of Thomas Mann's eponymous novella had won a special award at the Cannes Film Festival two years previously. The pro- tagonist, played by Dirk Bogarde, is an avant-garde com- poser who arrives in Venice in the early 1910s, in an ef- fort to address his deteriorating health, where he sees and becomes obsessed by a Polish boy who is spending his summer holiday in Venice with his mother. It is be- cause of this boy that the composer decides to stay in Venice even when the city is hit by a cholera epidemic that will ultimately result in his demise. Tristana This creation of the legendary Luis Buñuel, starring Catherine Deneuve in the lead role (who visited FEST in 2005), found itself included in the famous inaugural edition of the Festival. This drama, based on Benito Pérez Galdós's 1892 novel of the same name, was shot in the Spanish city of Toledo. The plot follows a young woman who, following her mother's death, goes through various stages in her re- lationship with don Lope (Fernando Rey) and tries to free herself from the shackles of society that have bound her. Borsalino This film was also screened at the first edition of FEST. Directed by Jacques Deray and starring Jean-Paul Bel- mond and Alain Delon in the lead roles, it is one of the most successful gangster films in the history of French cinematography. The plot begins in 1930 and shows how a criminal called Roch Siffredi (Delon) is released from pris- on only to find his girlfriend, Lola, in the arms of gang- ster François Capelle (Belmondo); following a brief tus- sle, these rivals become friends and decide to join forces in order to take control of the city's fish markets from al- ready established gangs. Betty Blue This Jean Jacques Beineix erotic psychological dra- ma (1986) was one of the films that marked FEST dur- ing the '80s. Based on Philippe Dijan's novel of the same name, the film's lead roles are played by Béatrice Dalle and Jean-Hugues Anglade. This creation, which sees an ambitious writer in his thirties meet and start a pas- sionate affair with the 19-year-old Betty, was nominat- ed for both a BAFTA and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The Serpent's Egg This 1977 film, starring Liv Ullmann and David Car- radine, which was only Bergman's second English-lan- guage film, was screened at the 1978 FEST. Set in Berlin during the early 1920s, former circus acrobat Abel Rosen- berg responds to the suicide of his brother by moving in with his widow, only to face unemployment, depression, alcoholism and social decadence in the Germany of the Weimar Republic.
in the history of this event. Schlesinger's film, which re- volves around the friendship between a naive gigolo in New York (Voight) and a petty con man(Hoffman), won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapt- ed Screenplay. The Tin Drum This Volker Schlöndorff film was screened at the 1980 edition of FEST, shortly after it received the highest ac- colades in the world of film: Cannes' Palme d'Or and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Based on the novel by Günter Grass, the film follows the life of Oskar Matzerath, who decides that he will never grow up, dur- ing the years of the rise of Nazism and World War II. Its director, Volker Schlöndorff, has been a welcome guest at FEST in the 21 st century, having visited Belgrade in 2001 and 2008. The “FEST's 50” programme will ena- ble the audience to see the “Director's cut” version of the film, which is extended by 20 minutes, in accord- ance with the author's original vision. Andrei Rublev This film by celebrated Russian director Andrei Tark- ovsky had its world premiere in 1966 and was screened at FEST for the first time in 1973. Based on the life of the eponymous 15 th -century Russian icon painter, it found itself back at FEST in 2008, when the restored version was screened. The guest of Belgrade and the Festival for this occasion was Russian cinematographer Vadim Yusov, who worked on the original version of the film.
Kum, Epilog: Smrt Majkla Korleonea Na svečanom zatvaranju FEST-a, u udarnom terminu u Centru Sa - va , premijerno će u Srbiji biti prikazana nova, premontirana verzija fil- ma Kum 3 legendarnog reditelja Frensisa Forda Kopole, nastala povo- dom tridesetogodišnjice prvog prikazivanja ovog ostvarenja. Poslednje
poglavlje sage o porodici Korleone dobilo je i nov na- ziv: Kum, Epilog: Smrt Maj - kla Korleonea , kojim Kopola odaje počast piscu i scena- risti Mariju Puzu. THE GOD- FATHER, CODA: THE DEATH OF MICHAEL CORLEONE For the formal closing of this year’s FEST, the prime time slot at the Sava Centre will be occupied by the premiere Serbian screening of the new, re-edited version of
legendary director Francis Ford Coppola’s film The Godfather 3, which was created to commemorate the 30 th anniversary of the premiere screening of this work. The final chapter in the saga of the Corleone family has also been renamed to: The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, with which Coppola pays homage to novelist and screenwriter Maria Puzo.
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